Animal Welfare Professionals

Announcing (drumroll please),  The Go-To Guide for Animal Services! This guide is a high level summary resource for all things animal welfare and relevant for both non-profit and municipal leaders and is free #ThankstoMaddie ! It can be found on the Team Shelter USA website at  teamshelterusa.com/guide, downloaded and shared. There's lots of current links to information about each topic and I addressed all the questions I am asked when doing operational consults and feasibility studies so here are the answers! Did I say Thank you Maddie??? 

This guide is saying something that I think a lot of us in this space have been circling around for a while. The system was designed around reaction, not prevention. Sara puts it right up front.

What jumped out at me is the data on field services calls. Only 19% resulted in shelter intake. That means 81% of the time, the answer was not a shelter. It was something else. And in too many communities, that "something else" doesn't exist in any structured way.

She also references the LA study where 77% of people who surrendered cited cost as the reason, and many had no idea resources were available. That's not a family problem. That's an infrastructure problem.

I just posted a separate thread about the coordination gap in animal welfare, and this guide reinforces the same conclusion from the shelter operations side. We're all arriving at the same place: the resources often exist, the connections between them don't, and prevention has to become a funded function, not a side project.

Worth the read if you haven't seen it yet.

Announcing (drumroll please),  The Go-To Guide for Animal Services! This guide is a high level summary resource for all things animal welfare and relevant for both non-profit and municipal leaders and is free #ThankstoMaddie ! It can be found on the Team Shelter USA website at  teamshelterusa.com/guide, downloaded and shared. There's lots of current links to information about each topic and I addressed all the questions I am asked when doing operational consults and feasibility studies so here are the answers! Did I say Thank you Maddie??? 

Announcing (drumroll please),  The Go-To Guide for Animal Services! This guide is a high level summary resource for all things animal welfare and relevant for both non-profit and municipal leaders and is free #ThankstoMaddie ! It can be found on the Team Shelter USA website at  teamshelterusa.com/guide, downloaded and shared. There's lots of current links to information about each topic and I addressed all the questions I am asked when doing operational consults and feasibility studies so here are the answers! Did I say Thank you Maddie??? 

What an amazing resource! Thank you so much Dr. Pizano and Maddie's Fund! This will be so helpful in my collaborations with community partners.

Announcing (drumroll please),  The Go-To Guide for Animal Services! This guide is a high level summary resource for all things animal welfare and relevant for both non-profit and municipal leaders and is free #ThankstoMaddie ! It can be found on the Team Shelter USA website at  teamshelterusa.com/guide, downloaded and shared. There's lots of current links to information about each topic and I addressed all the questions I am asked when doing operational consults and feasibility studies so here are the answers! Did I say Thank you Maddie??? 

Announcing (drumroll please),  The Go-To Guide for Animal Services! This guide is a high level summary resource for all things animal welfare and relevant for both non-profit and municipal leaders and is free #ThankstoMaddie ! It can be found on the Team Shelter USA website at  teamshelterusa.com/guide, downloaded and shared. There's lots of current links to information about each topic and I addressed all the questions I am asked when doing operational consults and feasibility studies so here are the answers! Did I say Thank you Maddie??? 

Thank you so much, Sarah and Maddie! This guide is an absolute game-changer for anyone in animal services!

For non-profit shelters like ours, free, comprehensive, and authoritative resources like this are invaluable. It's perfect for daily operations, staff training, and even communicating with municipal leaders, and it answers so many of the questions we get asked all the time.

I've already downloaded it and shared it with my entire team. This is such a fantastic resource-thank you again! ❤️

Announcing (drumroll please),  The Go-To Guide for Animal Services! This guide is a high level summary resource for all things animal welfare and relevant for both non-profit and municipal leaders and is free #ThankstoMaddie ! It can be found on the Team Shelter USA website at  teamshelterusa.com/guide, downloaded and shared. There's lots of current links to information about each topic and I addressed all the questions I am asked when doing operational consults and feasibility studies so here are the answers! Did I say Thank you Maddie???